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The Little Pink Pig and the Big Road, and Other Exciting Adventures
by Van Dresser, Jasmine Stone
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Chicago: Rand Mcnally & Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth binding w/ paper art plate on front board rubbed at extremities & slightly cocked; spine ends & corners frayed; boards a bit soiled & scuffed; hinges & a few points in textblock cracked; leaves brittle at hinge joints, some cracking; small closed tears & nicks to many leaf edges; gift inscription inked on half title; erasure to bottom margin of one leaf; leaf edges, paste-downs & endpapers foxed/smudged, else a much-enjoyed, intact, clean copy, w/ bright, clear ils. No dj. ; Many charming b&w and color ils. by Clarence Biers. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" ; 109 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 48356
- Title
- The Little Pink Pig and the Big Road, and Other Exciting Adventures
- Author
- Van Dresser, Jasmine Stone
- Illustrator
- Clarence Biers
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Rand Mcnally & Company
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1924
- Keywords
- Antique Children's Books, Easy to Read Collectibles, St. Louis, Missouri Authors
Terms of Sale
Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
Biblio member since 2019
Fort Wayne, Indiana
About Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
Open shop with over 125,000 volumes. We try to maintain a good selection in all categories and have a fondness for the odd & obscure. Specialties include History, Nature, Literature, Religion, Mystery, SF, Art, Children's, Humor, Indiana
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
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